[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Murder.Of.Crows

I just finished the first book. Never before have I used the word "cunt" to insult someone, until Katniss. Yet even though I wanted to slap her half the time, I had to keep reading. So, yeah it was good. But, I still stand on the position that Battle Royale was better.

Haven't read Battle royale, I'll put it on my to read list.

I got through the second and third books because I wanted to see what Collins was going to do with the Gale/Peeta thing, but the storyline reminded me of Running man/Gladiator fights, and I was a little 'oh not again" when I finished the series. But it was a page turner and I couldn't put the book down.

But Katniss had experienced a lot of trauma in her life, so that's why she was the way she was, and Collins did a great job to show Katniss' gradual fall into disassociation et al, particularly in the second and third books, where she just broke.